...Let thy apparel be neat and handsome; even a stake,well dressed, does not look like a stake... 
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... He rushed to Tarzan's side, and asthe first of the savages reached the village gate the native's knifesevered the last of the cords that bound Tarzan to the stake...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
..."You will stake your life against the finding of the gold?" asked Abdul...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
...There is so much at stake...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...“The queen’s honor was at stake, and the fellow himself an assassin...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...He used to be left to graze picketed by a long ropeto a stake in the ground; but one afternoon on returning to camp Ifound, much to my annoyance, that he had disappeared...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...I could stake my lifeon that little woman's integrity...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
...Methought the game within her bosom was for a more serious stake than that upon the table, and better worth the observer's notice...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Who should win it?—her guardian angel? or the gambling fiend? Alas, the latter! She bashfully drew a little purse from her bosom, and put her stake down with the rest...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Her grave is, as the grave of the dead at sea, unmarked, and without stone or stake...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Atterdat dey had ter put a halter on 'im, en tie 'im ter a stake, er e'se deywould n' 'a' been naer leaf er terbacker lef' in de patch...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The Conjure Woman」
...It was here that FrancisMcIntosh, a free colored man from Pittsburgh, was taken from thesteamboat Flora, and burned at the stake...
William Wells Brown 「The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave」
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